I've only heard rumors. Nothing solid from anyone at or connected with Hulu.

I can see them trying it out on their 2M subscribers, since Hulu is backed by the networks. And the networks have interests in cable.

Cable verification would be the same thing as HBOGo, et al.: you would be required to enter your cable, satellite account number or some other info to prove you are a cable sunscriber. As the backers of Hulu aren't strictly cable media (like HBO), it seems unlikely. But it's possible the cable industry is exerting some pressure to keep people from cutting the cord.

Not sure that the number of cord cutters is serious enough for them to be concerned, nor that Hulu's number of subscribers is large enough to risk pissing off any of them.

I think they'll try it, and see it fail. I'm willing to bet a good portion (myself included) use Hulu to watch OTA content. Moving to the verification method really alienates some people that 1) can't get cable 2) The digital transition made OTA spotty at best. Both cases apply to me. I'll just find something else, and Hulu will have lost one more customer.

Eh. Nothing I really want to watch on there 90% of the time anyway. Never found a good reason to go to Hulu+ and requiring a cable verify is just going to encourage torrenting of the shows they firewall. I don't see this as a win for anyone.

The thing working the the Cable Co's favor is that the vast majority of Americans get their internet connection from a cable co. And Cable Co's are working feverishly to stop the cord cutters. Until we have ISPs that are really ISPs, you can count on this type of dick move all over the place.

More trouble than it's worth. There are numerous Hulu-connected devices that are already hooked up to the TV. If Hulu stupidly decides that it won't show the same content (that I'm paying for!) on those as a laptop, I feel no compunction to make extra effort to do an end-run around that when I can do a complete end-run and just download the show where I want, how I want.

More trouble than it's worth. There are numerous Hulu-connected devices that are already hooked up to the TV. If Hulu stupidly decides that it won't show the same content (that I'm paying for!) on those as a laptop, I feel no compunction to make extra effort to do an end-run around that when I can do a complete end-run and just download the show where I want, how I want.

This. Also, not wife-approved. It had to be part of out existing A/V stack, not more cables and hardware. Given that we had at least two devices that could theoretically play Hulu, it was a reasonable restriction.

I have my Mac Mini connected to my TV, subscribed to Hulu+ and watch the majority of my TV this way having dropped satellite 2+ years ago. If verification does happen then one of several things will occur.

1. Ill go directly to the individual websites of the networks and watch the shows there, painful but possible. 2. I'll do what I'm doing with HBOGo and login with a family members credentials who wont cut the cable, and flip the Man the bird. 3. I'll finish my Win7 MCE box with OTA tuner and just record in HD and completely skip all commercials, while flipping the Man the bird with both hands.4. Seeing as how my monthly subscription, with commercials, isn't enough for the Man I'll turn to the darkside and still watch what I want with no commercials at all, and my whole family will flip the Man the bird.

This has to be one of the stupidest moves yet but hey why work with people that WANT TO GIVE YOU MONEY, albeit less than a full cable/satellite sub and STILL WATCH COMMERCIALS when you could alienate them and make sure that the one thing you don't want to happen will become even more common, piracy. Stupid stupid stupid.

I have my Mac Mini connected to my TV, subscribed to Hulu+ and watch the majority of my TV this way having dropped satellite 2+ years ago.

This has to be one of the stupidest moves yet but hey why work with people that WANT TO GIVE YOU MONEY, albeit less than a full cable/satellite sub and STILL WATCH COMMERCIALS when you could alienate them and make sure that the one thing you don't want to happen will become even more common, piracy. Stupid stupid stupid.

We also have a Mac Mini in similar fashion. I personally don't mind commercials, either. I pay for Hulu+, Netflix, and have VoD from my Amazon Prime membership (though I've only actually watched a couple of them). We also have over 980 titles (movies and TV shows) in our wall o' dvd's.

But, mostly, I use Sickbeard for the stuff I can't watch on Hulu the next day. I wouldn't have a problem if the stuff I got from Sickbeard had all the original commercials. I wouldn't have a problem if I could get a live exact stream of my local channels, commercials and all. But I can't, I don't feel that everything needs to be free, but unless Verizon/Comcast will charge me 30 bucks a month for the cable channels I want to pick, then there's no point in me getting it.

I have my Mac Mini connected to my TV, subscribed to Hulu+ and watch the majority of my TV this way having dropped satellite 2+ years ago. If verification does happen then one of several things will occur.

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3. I'll finish my Win7 MCE box with OTA tuner and just record in HD and completely skip all commercials, while flipping the Man the bird with both hands.

I have the same Mac Mini setup and use EyeTV on the Mini to watch/record OTA shows. Unless you record a lot of stuff (the recordings for half-hour shows can sometimes be 1GB), just that set up should be fine. If you do record a lot, a larger hard drive or a separate setup may be preferable.

Personally, I saw the writing on the wall and expected the cable channels to reign in all this "TV on the internet" stuff eventually. I went with a DVR so I can watch what I want when I want via that instead of when the stations/channels let their stuff get posted to the internet.

Maybe, all along, the goal of cable/TV providers has been the same as those of our mothers: go outside and play.

Their overwhelming desire to monetize the hell out of a (mostly) mediocre product and, simultaneously, wall off the same product is counterproductive. So, the only reasonable conclusion is that they don't want us to watch their stuff.